I know.. my statements are very generalizing, and as such, don’t deal with the irregularities of real life.
I’m just trying to get some approach of what is typical of a culture.
Someone could say, as well, that “brazilian people don’t use gaiwans”, and probably could even say “brazilian people don’t even know what a gaiwan is”. I’m brazilian, and I just don’t use a gaiwan because I couldn’t get one (yet). But generally speaking, these statements are true.
Culture is a tremendous force in people’s habits, which doesn’t mean everybody will behave the same. People in the north of Brazil will hardly have a meal withouth cassava flour, that doesn’t mean that all people from the north eat cassava flour and neither that if I eat it, I was born in the north. Ask someone in the south of Brazil, what is tea (chá) is, and he/she will probably answer that it is “the infusion made from Ilex paraguariensis leaves”.
Well, I hope there’s no misunderstanding here. I know that stereotypes can be quite offensive.
